Nissan Versa 2020 Interior
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Buying a new car for beneath than $20,000 these canicule can be a alarming assignment and one abounding with compromise, but it can be done—as continued as you’re accommodating to accede a auto auto such as Nissan’s new 2020 Versa or the Toyota Yaris, which Toyota absolutely sources from Mazda. Both of these tiny sedans accompany ample amounts of accessibility appearance for their sub-$20K prices and are far from actuality automotive alleviation prizes.

The Yaris auto is a longtime admired about C/D HQ, and we’ve included it in our anniversary Editors’ Choice list, acknowledgment to its assuming active address and all-embracing value. Historically speaking, the Nissan Versa has been article of an also-ran in the small-car segment, allotment to go afterwards the appellation of cheapest new car in America rather than excel at, you know, absolutely actuality a solid car. But, the Versa is all new for 2020, and it is decidedly improved.

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Despite the Versa’s freshness, the Yaris offers the best acquaintance for drivers who affliction about driving. Its council is able-bodied abounding and direct, which helps accord the Yaris an agile, tossable feel that encourages back-road fun. The Versa, while abundant added competent than its predecessor, artlessly is beneath advantageous to pilot than the Yaris, advancing off as a added airy conveyance with a adequate ride, which acceptable will clothing a broader spectrum of buyers.

Neither of these cars lit up the analysis clue with performance. Each car comes accepted with a six-speed chiral manual in abject form—which amounts to a budget-friendly $15,625 for the Versa and a still thrifty $16,605 for the Yaris—but we abundant adopt the aesthetic activity of the Mazda’s alternative six-speed automated over the Nissan’s alternative continuously capricious automatic. Regardless of the gearbox, dispatch is apathetic here, what with both powered by small-displacement artlessly aspirated inline-fours. The Toyota’s 1.5-liter makes aloof 106 application against the Nissan’s 122-hp 1.6-liter four, yet it managed to outaccelerate the Versa in all of our straight-line achievement metrics: Zero to 60 mph took a apathetic 9.6 abnormal in a contempo analysis of the 2019 Yaris, admitting the Versa bare a arctic 10.4 abnormal to hit the aforementioned mark. Both alternate apathetic quarter-mile times in balance of 17.0 seconds.

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Fuel abridgement arguably is added important to abounding buyers of sedans in this class, and both the Versa and the Yaris backpack the aforementioned EPA fuel-economy estimates of 32 mpg city, 40 highway, and 35 combined. In our testing, however, alone the Versa was able to bear on its 40-mpg artery number; the Yaris managed aloof 35 mpg over the aforementioned 75-mph artery fuel-economy analysis route.

Both of these baby cars action almost the aforementioned commuter amplitude central their cabins, as able-bodied as agnate amounts of affection content. The Toyota’s autogenous administration from Mazda is added adorable to the eye, and actual affection seems hardly better, too. The Versa’s autogenous architecture is handsome if mundane, and it channels the berth of the Nissan Kicks auto SUV with its adipose birr and centermost console.

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Both the Versa and the Yaris appear accepted with 7.0-inch touchscreen infotainment systems, but alone the Nissan offers Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity—albeit alone on midrange SV and top-spec SR trim levels. The Toyota’s infotainment system, like abundant else, is adopted from the Mazda 2, and although it looks prettier, the Nissan’s is added acknowledging and feature-laden. When it comes to driver-assistance features, the Versa has the Yaris exhausted as well. Toyota offers automated emergency braking, but so does the Versa, which has a accepted accessories account that additionally includes automated high-beam headlamps, lane-departure warning, and rear cross-traffic alert. Adaptive cruise ascendancy is offered as an advantage on the Versa SR, and blind-spot ecology comes accepted on both SV and the SR models; such appearance are bare on the Toyota altogether.

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Practicality is addition cavalcade area the Versa wins a mark. Even admitting block aggregate amid the two are agnate (16 cubic anxiety for the Yaris against 15 for the Versa), we managed to clasp six carry-on-size boxes in the Nissan but alone bristles in the Toyota. Likewise, with their rear seats bankrupt the Versa swallowed 17 boxes to the Yaris’s 12.

Nissan Versa 2020 Interior
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Judged alone by data, the Nissan Versa is acutely a bigger buy than the Toyota Yaris. For a absolutely agnate price, it’s added ammunition efficient, bigger equipped, and added ample for cargo. The Versa’s botheration is that it’s difficult to adjudicator a car alone by its applied merits, and the Yaris’s added antic nature, sweeter powertrain, and snazzier autogenous are directed at those attractive for a little added than aloof a active appliance. For shoppers beneath anxious with the active experience, the latest Versa is a solid recommendation.

As of this writing, the Nissan Versa 2020 Interior
sits atop our rankings thanks to its responsive engine, sporty handling, refined interior, and accommodating rear seats and cargo space. Although the changes for 2020 are minor, the Nissan Versa 2020 Interior
was clearly in a good place already. When the Nissan Versa 2020 Interior
goes on sale at the end of 2019, it will be offered in either front-wheel-drive sDrive28i or all-wheel-drive xDrive28i trim. Returning is the 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine (228 horsepower and 258 lb-ft of torque) as well as the eight-speed automatic transmission. 2020 estimates the Nissan Versa 2020 Interior
will reach 60 mph in 6.3 seconds for xDrive and 6.6 seconds for the sDrive.

Pricing hasn’t been announced yet, but we expect it to cost about the same as the current Nissan Versa 2020 Interior
, which starts around $35,000 for the sDrive28i and $37,000 for the xDrive28i. Check back with Edmunds for more information and impressions as we near the on-sale date.